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Tips for Kicking Your Sugar Habit

Tips for Kicking Your Sugar Habit

Sugar has a fairly contradictory relationship with consumers. On one hand, we’re generally taught about the unhealthy nature of sugar at a pretty young age – remember when your mom told you couldn’t get that certain cereal or cookie brand ...

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Five Tips for Building Up Your Bones

Five Tips for Building Up Your Bones

Aging can bring about some wonderful moments, but it can also force us to confront a number of health-related issues. One of these issues is the health of our bones, which tend to get weaker and more brittle as we ...

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Eating Green While Saving Green

Eating Green While Saving Green

It’s no secret that eating organic food has become a nationwide trend in recent years. While the health benefits of organic food are well documented, many consumers are still reluctant to buy organic products due to their relatively high prices. ...

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Is There Arsenic in Our Apple Juice?

Is There Arsenic in Our Apple Juice?

One of America’s most well-known doctors, Dr. Mehmet Oz, recently announced to viewers on The Dr. Oz Show the findings of an independent study on arsenic levels in apple juice. The study involved three dozen samples from five different brands ...

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Is Our Food Really Getting Weaker?

Is Our Food Really Getting Weaker?

We hear it all the time, the soil is depleted due to over farming, we learned how to genetically modify food, but it’s not as nutritious. Is this really true? From our live stock to our poultry to our vegetables, ...

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Cholesterol and Eggs: What Is Best for Your Diet?

Cholesterol and Eggs: What Is Best for Your Diet?

If you are like many Americans, you have probably heard a lot about cholesterol and eggs during your lifetime. Often times, the messages regarding the health effects of eggs might seem confusing and contradictory, leading to much frustration on the ...

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Constipation: It’s No Laughing Matter

Constipation: It’s No Laughing Matter

There is staggering number of people who suffer from constipation.  Each year, Americans alone spend more than $1 billion dollars on over the counter laxatives.  What causes constipation? Let’s start with a ‘food flowchart’. Once we eat food, it combines ...

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Citrus: Vitamin C and Cholesterol Free

Citrus: Vitamin C and Cholesterol Free

Citrus, which originated from Southeast Asia, is much more than just a shrub associated with acidity and bitterness. The first thing that most people think of when they hear “citrus fruits” is vitamin C. While vitamin C does play a ...

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Ginger: More Than Just a Spice

Ginger: More Than Just a Spice

Most people know Ginger as a common spice used in the foods we eat.  It is a flavourful spice often used in chicken, cookies, bread, tea, and candies.  However, there is much more to this spice than just its taste. ...

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